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Tucker, Bill – Educational Leadership, 2009
New technology-enabled assessments offer the potential to understand more than just whether a student answered a test question right or wrong. Using multiple forms of media that enable both visual and graphical representations, these assessments present complex, multistep problems for students to solve and collect detailed information about an…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Problem Solving, Student Characteristics, Information Technology
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Barbe, Walter B.; Milone, Michael N., Jr. – Educational Leadership, 1981
Summarizes research findings on relationships among modality strengths, learning, and personal characteristics. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Modalities, Learning Processes
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Williams, Belinda; Newcombe, Ellen – Educational Leadership, 1994
The Urban Learner Framework stresses four themes: the importance of students' cultural strengths and learning experiences, culture's influence on cognitive development, the importance of motivation and effort, and resilience as a characteristic of urban learners. Barriers to change include belief systems, district size, regulations, multiple…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Processes